"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing" Socrates (Republic) "The dean is to the faculty as the fire hydrant is to the dog" Alfred Kahn "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them" Isaac Asimov"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep" Saul Bellow"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them" Joseph Heller "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" George Orwell"With four parameters I can can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk" John von Neumann "The Category 4 hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical storm" Bill Gross, co-founder of PIMCO, on the state of the financial system 8 days before Lehman Brothers collapsed
Note: These pages are best viewed with Firefox.